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...seductions that may ensue. Not only is an alcoholic uncle guaranteed, but there's always the presence of a host of eminently shockable types such as grandparents or mothers of the bride as well--what's the use of being outrageous if no one is scandalized? Add a passel of children to act as the fascinated witnesses of parental duplicity and you have most of the ingredients needed for a domestic farce...
...Soup. Such books are known in the trade as "show tie-ins," and by the debased standards of the genre these are well done. But what would happen if the show went in for "book tie-ins" and the Bellamys had to cope with a passel of bestselling authors belowstairs...
...during the month, from Hafez Assad to King Hussein to Moshe Dayan. Almost invariably she would stand with her right knee bent, so her willowy 6-ft. figure would not tower over shorter men. In addition, she touched a few bases that Henry missed, managing to meet with a passel of VIPs and not-so-VIPs, ranging from the Baron and Baroness Edmond de Rothschild (at a swank restaurant near Jerusalem) to Dr. Mieczyslaw Rodziewicz, a young Polish archaeologist who was working near Alexandria. She commiserated with his exasperation upon discovering a new apartment building above a potentially rich...
Meanwhile, a passel of other unions have settled within the pay code's limits, including 18,000 electrical-power engineers who had refused to work overtime and weekends. Still, there was fear that British unions, which have a reputation for striking at the drop of a hat, might stage a general strike. Said George Evans of the huge Transport and General Workers' Union: "Feelings are at a boiling point. You cannot slash a man's wages by 40% and expect to get away with...
Before the season began, I couldn't see how Harvard would improve its 4-4-1 record of a year ago. Crimson coach Joe Restic had lost a passel of talent at graduation, and was basing his hopes for a respectable season on a sizeable group of untried sophomores and juniors. I couldn't envision Harvard winning four games over the course of the entire season, let alone in the first four contests...